So we’ve all been totally fine during the pandemic, right? ha… In my case, i’ve gone through about 3 distinct intellectual ringers of annihilation and rebirth (funny enough, a post about that film (more…)
Detecting Baloney – the need for development of critical thought & honing our collective faculties….
The Economist is asking why people believe in nonsense. Well I will tell you: Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, and others have known it for years: We need to teach critical thought to young people, (more…)
Atheists, Agnostics know more about religion than the religious
But it’s also a lack of belief, in this case. It’s impossible to explain, which is why I default to humanism when talking about this, because it’s so much nicer to explain that with a hug.
Debunkers sift the net – The power of myths; the credulousness of humanity
Belief is a powerful force… it makes people argue the illogical aspect of Santa while believing in an afterlife, or scoffing at fairies and leprechauns while believing in magical, floating space pixies (more…)
XKCD makes people happy.
I will tell you..I’m about to. So I was wearing that “Science: it works bitches!” Tshirt tonight at the gym”. It’s funny, but true. The back is a graph of the results from the COBE mission. From (more…)
Atheism as faith is to Baffled as Perculosis
I really get bugged when people start talking about atheism as a belief system or faith. It’s like people don’t want to think deeply about a concept at all. Not all concepts… just this one. They are (more…)
SCIENCE IS BACK BITCHES!!!!!!! Obama’s Humanist Agenda!!!!! (Plus Pelosi’s SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE!!!!)
Mark my words – today was one of the most important days in the history of science, humanism, and non belief in regards to politics and science’s “rightful place” in our society. It was truly momentous. ——– Reprint (more…)
Agnosticism
Atheism is such an absolute lack of faith. I never had religion to lose, nor can I shake my lack of faith. But agnosticism, as a wise man recently told me (while musing that we are leaves of some (more…)
Santa killed God, Agnostic Atheism, and bittersweet mortality
I think I am agnostic as of late. “Agnostic Atheist†to be precise…. But it still means I am moving on that grand scale of belief systems. At the age of 6 or 7 when I figured out Santa, I simply (more…)